At least three wildfires broke out Saturday afternoon in La Plata County – near Vallecito Reservoir, south of the Durango-La ...

The first human case of West Nile virus in La Plata County was reported to the La Plata County Health Department in July, ...

A former county jail commander in Colorado has been charged with over 100 counts of invasion of privacy for sexual ...

Edward Aber resigned last year while being investigated for sexual harassment of his colleagues and unlawful sexual contact ...

LA PLATA COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) -- A former La Plata County Jail commander is accused of accessing more than 100 strip search ...

Colorado officials issued evacuation orders for some residents in La Plata County on Saturday due to two wildfires burning in ...

Tourism to La Plata County, including international travel, is on the decline, according to the city of Durango. Based on ...

La Plata County’s solid waste disposal site in Bayfield, which operated until 1994 and was home to 100,000 cubic yards of municipal waste, contained excessive levels of vinyl chloride, a gas ...

Five months later, in the original La Plata County case, District Court Judge Suzanne F. Carlson issued an order once again confirming the county's legal land-use authority applied.

He won in a blue wave election year for Colorado, earning about 4,000 more votes in La Plata County than his opponent. (He lost neighboring Montezuma, Colorado’s only other orphan county.) In March, ...

The CDPHE lab has confirmed reports of plague in animals and fleas from six different counties. That includes La Plata County, where a 10-year-old died from causes associated with the plague.